Strings
The smallest and highest pitched string instrument.
What is the violin?
This woodwind instrument is black and has a single-reed.
What is the clarinet?
This is the smallest, highest sounding brass instrument.
What is the trumpet?
Name 3 unpitched percussion instruments that are used to keep a beat.
What is wood block, bass drum, triangle, sand blocks, cymbals, fish, maracas, claves, castanets, cowbell, or tambourine?
This section of the orchestra sits behind the string section.
What is the woodwind section?
The stringed instrument that is 6 feet tall and plays the lowest notes.
What is the bass?
This woodwind is not made from wood. It is silver and held horizontally to play. It does not have a reed. You must blow across the mouthpiece to make it play.
What is the flute?
This brass instrument is the only brass instrument that has a slide.
What is the trombone?
The only tunable drum in the orchestra.
What is the timpani (kettle drum)?
This section of the orchestra has mouthpieces that are all shaped the same. You must buzz your lips to get it to sound.
What is the brass section?
The stringed instrument that is played sitting down.
What is the cello?
This woodwind has a double-reed and is used to tune-up the orchestra. It is sometimes used to coax snakes out of a basket to dance.
What is the oboe?
This brass instrument is the biggest and plays the lowest notes.
What is the tuba?
The 3 ways the percussion instruments are played.
What is hitting, scraping, and shaking?
The section of the orchestra that has tuned and non-tuned instruments. It sits in the back of the orchestra because the instruments are loud.
What is the percussion section?
The stringed instrument that is slightly larger that the violin and can play slightly lower notes than the violin.
What is the viola?
This instrument has no reed. It is silver and is held horizontally. It plays the highest notes in the orchestra.
What is the piccolo?
This brass instrument is played with your hand in the bell to soften the sound. It was also used by fox hunters to start the game.
What is the french horn?
This percussion instrument is round, suspended on a frame and is chinese.
What is the gong?
The stick that the conductor holds.
What is a baton?
This section is where the stringed instruments are seated in the Orchestra.
What is the front of the Orchestra?
This instrument is the longest woodwind instrument. It has a double reed, and looks like a long pipe. It plays very low notes.
What is the bassoon?
This brass instrument is played by famous musician, Wynton Marsalis.
What is the trumpet?
What are 2 tuned percussion instruments?
What is the xylophone, chimes, celesta, piano, or bells?
Which section of the orchestra is not included in a band?
What is the string section?